Pros over SolydXK: I found Nvidia drivers to be more up to date. Cons over SolydXK: It eventually broke a few packages over an upgrade, and I already deleted my cache to save space. Arch based distros are just too unstable for my taste, but Debian Testing is too conservative on some things such as N...

I'm planning to buy a new computer, and I'm going to want to dual boot Windows 8 for my gaming needs. I know that I'll need to disable secure boot, but from my understanding, the current installer doesn't allow UEFI. Is there a guide in getting SolydXK to dual boot with Windows 8 on a new computer? ...

if anyone wants to update to newer drivers use sgfxi: Step 1: Logout, and go to terminal, and login as root: cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/sgfxi && chmod +x sgfxi && sgfxi Step 2: If you get an error of any kind, reboot, and run it again, and you should be good to go. Optional: If you're a ...

I was just thinking: what would we need to do to make SolydK BE patent free so that governmental institutions could use it? Even if you tried, there will always be lawyers trying to find the 5th leg of the cat to find a flaw. Samsung and Google have their fair share of law suits and both are corper...

It appears that libjack0:i386 is no longer a dependency for the newest version of pipelight. The instrunctions was questioning if it still was, so I removed this package and installed it without it, and it works! :) Yes, Pipelight by default. Ideally, it would be part of Solyd's repository and would...

KDE is my desktop of choice as well. Out of all the other Desktop enviornment of choice, this one lets me customize to my content. I also seem to have a preference for KDE apps such as K3b, Amarok, Kdenlive, and even Quassel IRC. They'll work in other desktop enviornments, but it just meshes better ...

For me, it was/is a toss up between this and Manjaro. I picked this because I believe Debian is a more stable base, so a lesser possibility for breakage. The only thing that has me jealous is Manjaro having more up to date Nvidia drivers, but you know what they say about the grass being greener. Sol...